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Old 29th December 2009, 08:07 AM
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You were.../BALLAD in Singapore

Since the Japan press is released today, I decided to make this thread.

NEWS LOG

29 December: No news of the single yet.
30 December -Japan's New Year Holiday start-: If there's still no news today, we'll only have the single next week.

-UPDATE-

Karen visited both HMV outlets and the CD Only of the single is out! Cost: $22.95
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CD only of You were ... / BALLAD is already on sale at both HMV Somerset & Citylink stores !

it's going for S$22.95 & it's 1st press as expected

I was at the Citylink outlet 1st followed by the Somerset outlet so I made sure I was there to double check on things
31 December: Bought my copy of the CD Only. No poster included.
30 January: Karen visited HMV and gramophone. HK press CD+DVDs are out in Singapore and both stores are selling them at $16.95. It's the first press but it isn't known if a poster is included or not.
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but anyway yes both HK presses / CD + DVD's of You were ... / BALLAD are already made available here in S'pore

in HMV & Gramaphone - S$16.95 each (same as Sunrise / Sunset) / 1st press

HMV still has quite a few copies of the Japan press / CD only / 1st press of the single , going at S$22.95
1 March: Got updated from Karen that CD-RAMA is selling the HK press singles for $15.95
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CD Rama is selling both HK press / CD + DVD's of You were ... / BALLAD at S$15.95 each
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Old 29th December 2009, 08:18 AM
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yayy thanks for creating this thread! looking forward to getting this single!
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Old 29th December 2009, 09:39 AM
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the HMV staff will give me a call on that but something tells me that the single might or might not arrive til mid Jan X___X

I don't know because Japan's going to have their long new year holidays from tomorrow til 3rd-4th Jan 2010 but hopefully I will be proven wrong on that

Also new jpop stock seldom comes on a Tue & the staff told me that the carrier usually ships new jpop releases out on a Tue so I doubt the stock will be in by today

tomorrow or Thurs , maybe ?
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Old 29th December 2009, 10:09 AM
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Meh. That's disappointing. If that's the case then I'd probably use the money to pay for my copy of Namie's album. I'll wait till tomorrow then.
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Old 29th December 2009, 10:29 AM
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Meh. That's disappointing. If that's the case then I'd probably use the money to pay for my copy of Namie's album. I'll wait till tomorrow then.
the staff called me yesterday & I did asked them about this week's releases

it's hanging on mid air in that they don't know if they will get You were ... / BALLAD & the other jpop releases this week

it's hard to tell because they don't have any control with regards to the carrier's side
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Old 29th December 2009, 10:50 AM
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Hmm. If that's the case I'll only ask tomorrow night then. Thanks for the info Karen.
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Old 29th December 2009, 10:17 AM
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i'm sorry can i ask this? is the release date is the same in malaysia?
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Old 29th December 2009, 10:19 AM
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ayuworld,i think you need to wait MONTHS later since we are always late to see ayu's cd on sales here.but i think the most efficient was NEXT LEVEL.if not mistaken,some ayu fans said they are able to buy NEXT LEVEL 1month after the release date.so,if you want it,you can always buy it online
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Old 29th December 2009, 11:02 AM
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ayuworld,i think you need to wait MONTHS later since we are always late to see ayu's cd on sales here.but i think the most efficient was NEXT LEVEL.if not mistaken,some ayu fans said they are able to buy NEXT LEVEL 1month after the release date.so,if you want it,you can always buy it online
ahh..that was what i thought.it'll be late a month. yeah i remember seeing NEXT LEVEL in the stores just a month later. it's ok for me as i can save my money for that
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ahh..that was what i thought.it'll be late a month. yeah i remember seeing NEXT LEVEL in the stores just a month later. it's ok for me as i can save my money for that
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ahh..that was what i thought.it'll be late a month. yeah i remember seeing NEXT LEVEL in the stores just a month later. it's ok for me as i can save my money for that
because the NEXT LEVEL is malaysia press, which is cheaper than the imported OS press.

they dont release a malaysian press for single, you have to wait for the OS press to come and it takes a century and the price is terrible too
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Old 30th January 2010, 12:28 PM
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I don't think a poster will be given for You were ... / BALLAD

then again , Sunrise / Sunset & even Rule / Sparkle didn't had any
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Old 29th December 2009, 12:42 PM
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Just called HMV @ 313. They don't have stock of the CD Only yet. Sigh.
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i think japan is going on holiday for the new year, so chances are the single will arrive around NEXT thurs.

now i wonder will the OS version have those exchangeable covers?
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Old 30th December 2009, 02:53 AM
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i think japan is going on holiday for the new year, so chances are the single will arrive around NEXT thurs.

now i wonder will the OS version have those exchangeable covers?
That might be the case. OR maybe it could come today since Karen said CDs are usually shipped out on Tuesday (yesterday). And yesterday was still a working day for Japan so maybe it'd arrive here in Singapore by today.
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i know TW press has the changeable cover but they don't have the posters.thats what i saw from most of the online stores that sell TW press
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^ya, so either it comes today or.....next thursday.....

but do you think hmv manage to get the first press, for the exchangeable cards? coz they are already sold out at cdjapan, and my friend wants it after seeing the picture...hmm....
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Old 30th December 2009, 03:14 AM
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HMV always gets the first press. I think they'd order it first during the pre-order status.

And CDJapan still has the first press of the first press for the CD Only. I hope they bring in the poster like what they did for Rule/Sparkle and Days/GREEN.
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i know TW press has the changeable cover but they don't have the posters.thats what i saw from most of the online stores that sell TW press
you always can ask Cliff you know

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^ya, so either it comes today or.....next thursday.....

but do you think hmv manage to get the first press, for the exchangeable cards? coz they are already sold out at cdjapan, and my friend wants it after seeing the picture...hmm....
usually they're able to get 1st press copies of singles/albums

like most recently for alan's my life , they brought in the 1st press / CD only which has the photobook

when NEXT LEVEL was released , they brought in the 1st press / CD only which has the special green packaging CD casing too

Also most releases like for those more well known jpop artistes inclusive of Johnny's , HMV usually places an order to HMV Japan a month prior to the release date of an album/single
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Old 30th December 2009, 10:31 AM
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CD only of You were ... / BALLAD is already on sale at both HMV Somerset & Citylink stores !

it's going for S$22.95 & it's 1st press as expected

I was at the Citylink outlet 1st followed by the Somerset outlet so I made sure I was there to double check on things
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